The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-12

bic welcome. He regretted most
heartily the severity of the weather. by
which their hospitality had been tested.
Then he spoke of the Irish spirit, which
it was impossible to come in contact
with without feeling that Ireland'S
cause was immortal and uncOnquerable.
While he would not then make
speech, he would say that he was en-
gagged upon what was perhaps to GER
tain extent a dangerous mission. Lord
Lansdowne had been chosen by the
landlords as the pioneer and champion
of that body in the work of eXtermina-
ton. They had not been able to stem
the torrent of evictionS, but they had
been able to protect the tenants who
had pluck to adopt the plan OF cam,
paign and stand by it. Five hundred
poor tenants had been evicted in three
months of this year in Ireland, but not
one who had adopted the plan OF cam
paign, because the tenants were fed and
maintained out Of landlords rent as
long as q penny remained. The con-
sequence was that they had made CIVIC
lions expensive. Lord IanSdoWne mad
made the LuggacurrOn case test case,
and he had come here to make it test
case too, and to meet him on the steps
of his own throne. If Lord Lans-
downe thought he could carry on the
evictions he Mr.. y 'Brien1 thought there
were million of Irish-CanadianS who
would want to know the reason why.
He asked the Canadians to be judges.
He then referred to the trying time IN
Ireland at present, but he thought they
had leader in whom they could rely
in the person of Charles Stewart
Parnell. Never before were the peo-
pie of Ireland so hopeful, and never be-
fore were it's enemies in such dlsmay.
(ApplauSe.l
Mr.. Hugh McCoffrey extended an in
vitation to Mr.. O'BTien TO visit Phila-
delphia and promised him a rousing
reception. The gentlemen present were
then introduced to Mr.. . 'Brien and
pleasant courtesieS were exchanged as
the boat made its way to the city. On
his arrival he was driven to the Hon-
man House.
o'BRIEN INTERVIEWED.
NEW YORK, May 10.-Mr. William
Smith O'Brien. editor of United Ire
land, was seen at the Hoffman House
this morning, and after alluding to the
band of British Loyalists who had tried
to make it uncomfortable for him on
his voyage over, he said, Il cannot
wait to speak in New York, as much as
l would wish to. My mission is to
Canada. and [ must guard all my
strength. Besides they have the right
first to hear. | shall start for Montreal
tonight and shall make my first speech
there. l hear my Irish friends have
been refused every large hall in Mont
real, but that will make no difference,
for if necessary shall speak in the
public square"
Have you any fears of trouble?'
Not in the least. l go to Canada on
a mission popular alike with Protestant
and Catholic, and will set forth the
wrongs of the farmers of Ulster as
forcibly as those of the toilers of the
South. There is no religious question
in the matter, for it is purely one of
human justice. | appreciate the
intended honor of escort from Irishmen
of New York, but have declined it,
and shall go to Canada just as simple
traveller on a peaceful Grand"
MIR. O'Brien emphatically denies that
Parnell is sick or suffering from cancer,
and says that the great Irish leader was
never better in his life. He further
says that the Coercion Bill will pass,
but that it will react on its promoters
and will certainly be repealed when its
obnoxious provisions become more so
by enforcement. Speaking of the Par
nell letter of which so much has been
said and written, Mr.. o 'Brien asserted
that it was a forgery and a very clumsy
one at that. He would not say that
lPigott was the forger,, but he spoke of
him as a renegade and said that IL he
did not write the letter he was fully
capable of just such a thing. Mr..
O'Brien says that if he gets back from
Canada safely, of which he has no
doubt, he will spend week speaking
in New York, Philadelphia and Bos-
ton.